How Taylor Swift showed us the scary future of facial recognition The Guardian. Fri 15 Feb 2019 06.00 ESTLast modified on Fri 15 Feb 2019 20.40 EST Surveillance at concerts is just the beginning, as fears grow around an unregulated, billion-dollar industry Taylor Swift raised eyebrows late last year when Rolling Stone magazine […]
A New Era in Israel-Gulf State Relations? by Edy Cohen / JNS.org APRIL 7, 2019 6:18 AM United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash was quoted by the English-language Abu Dhabi newspaper The National last week as saying, “Many, many years ago, when there was an Arab decision not to […]
Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands […]
Amazon, Google, AI and us: Are we too close for comfort? Beyond facial recognition, we’re giving smart devices and platforms our intimate biometric details. BY BRIAN BENNETT APRIL 4, 2019 5:00 AM PDT Computers aren’t just getting smarter, they’re studying us more closely too. Whether it’s in the name of […]
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Facial recognition can speed you through airport security, but there’s a cost A growing Customs and Border Protection program pits convenience and security against privacy. BY LAURA HAUTALA MARCH 21, 2019 1:45 PM PDT. CNET In the not too distant future, you could walk into the international terminal of almost […]
Some ruminations on decentralization of identifications Tech Crunch. 04/07/2019 It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social security numbers — the table […]
Facial recognition: Apple, Amazon, Google and the race for your face Facial recognition technology is both innovative and worrisome. Here’s how it works and what you need to know. BY ANDREW GEBHART MARCH 18, 2019 3:00 PM PDT Facial recognition is a blossoming field of technology that is at once exciting […]
Cardinal Dolan suspends priest who embezzled church money to pay male prostitute Tue Apr 2, 2019 – 8:03 pm EST NEW YORK CITY, April 2, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York suspended a priest in his archdiocese who has been accused of embezzling hundreds of […]
